Where in Cleveland is your stolen car most likely to be found?: Stolen in the Suburbs

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Which Cleveland neighborhoods harbor the most stolen vehicles?

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Eight Greater Cleveland suburbs were chosen by cleveland.com for its 2017 series “Stolen in the Suburbs.” The project looks into the trends – and surprises – in stolen vehicle cases.

The statistics used in this project were gleaned from all 2014 and 2015 stolen vehicle police reports provided by the respective cities. In total, 855 vehicles were reported stolen from the eight suburbs in those two years.

Hundreds of police reports showed that 322 of the more than 800 stolen vehicles were found in the city of Cleveland. Only 29 police reports did not specify where the recovered vehicles were found.

Cleveland.com looked at Cleveland neighborhood maps created by the Northern Ohio Data and Information Service (NODIS). The service is part of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, and it is designated by the state and the U.S. Census Bureau as “the regional data center for northern Ohio,” the NODIS site states.

Using these neighborhood maps, we determined where a stolen car was most likely to be found in the city. Here are the top 10 neighborhoods (with some ties).

By Jane Morice

cleveland.com

Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer

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Glenville

1. Glenville – 38: This large neighborhood on the city’s East Side is primarily bordered on its north side by Interstate 90 and Wade Park Avenue to its south. Its east boundary is Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and its west boundary zig-zags between East 134th, East 131st, and East 125th streets. Of the 322 vehicles recovered in Cleveland, 38 (about 12 percent) of them were found in Glenville.

Jane Morice, cleveland.com

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West Boulevard

2. West Boulevard – 19: This roughly-triangular neighborhood on the city’s West Side primarily sits south of Interstate 90. It’s bordered to the east by West 117th Street, and the Conrail Railroad cuts diagonally, marking the neighborhood’s border from its southwest to northeast corners. Of the 322 stolen vehicles found in Cleveland, 19 (about 6 percent) of the were found in West Boulevard.

Jane Morice, cleveland.com

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Detroit-Shoreway

3. Detroit-Shoreway – 16: This West Side neighborhood sits northeast of the West Boulevard neighborhood. Its southern border is Interstate 90, and its western border is West 85th Street. The eastern border zig-zags from West 50th Street to Franklin Boulevard and then south down West 50th Street. The neighborhood housed 15 stolen vehicles – about 5 percent – of the 322 vehicles found in Cleveland.

Jane Morice, cleveland.com

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Broadway-Slavic Village

4. Broadway-Slavic Village – 15: This Cleveland neighborhood sits southeast of downtown. It’s primarily east of Interstate 77, and its eastern border sits along Garden Valley Avenue, East 80th Street, Bates Avenue and the Conrail railway. Its southern border is both Garfield Heights and Cuyahoga Heights. Police found 15 stolen vehicles in Broadway-Slavic Village, which is about 5 percent of the total found in Cleveland.